Cisco data center revamp cuts across switches, servers, storage

Cisco this week rolled out a bevy of data center products ranging from servers to switches to SANs, all designed to further broaden the company’s reach beyond networking and into IT infrastructure.

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) has refocused its data center training and certification portfolio on job roles, adding two new designations along with a plan to align partner specializations to the new certifications. Last March, Cisco rolled out the CCIE Data Center certification which went live in September, and now the vendor has fleshed out its associated portfolio with the CCNA Data Center and

Last week's data center splash from Cisco means customers can now begin to implement the company's fabric technology just about end-to-end, from the server network interface card to the network core.

The ability of your data center fabric to support millions of servers with low cost and power may not be due to advances from your major switch vendor, or to standards they may embrace.

Cisco this week expanded its data center arsenal with software, switches, modules and services all designed to scale the infrastructure to meet the demanding needs of virtualization, application complexity and cloud computing.

At Interop this week, Extreme Networks rolled out two switches designed to migrate users from legacy data center infrastructures into cloud computing environments.

Cisco this week opened up a new data center in Research Triangle Park, N.C., with a dual role: application development and disaster recovery (DR) for its production data centers in Texas.

Data center switch maker Mellanox Technologies this week unveiled a new processor designed to optimize its switches for software-defined networking (SDN).

Enterasys, the networking division of Siemens Enterprise Communications, this week unveiled it data center strategy, which hinges on partnerships and multivendor inclusion as well as the policy-based management capabilities of its switches.